Legion of Mary

News Notes of the 169th Meeting of the San Francisco Senatus

Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 7:00pm

Fr. Goode Hall, St. Finn Barr Church, San Francisco, California

The Opening Prayers and recitation of the Rosary was led the Senatus Spiritual Director, Rev. Father Lawrence Goode.

Spiritual Reading – The Spiritual Reading read by Fr. Goode was taken from the Legion Handbook, page 173, entitled The ACIES.

The Minutes of the 168th meeting was read by Senatus Secretary, Sr. Perlas and approved with one correction. The Senatus ACIES will be held on March 18th not the March 28th.

Correspondence: Sr. Perlas read Brother Cooke’s correspondence dated March 4, 2018 when the Concilium acknowledged the good attendance and can be reinforced through the increased attendance of Praesidia, Comitium and Curia Officers, where possible. Brother Cooke also appreciated the donation to the Concilium. The Concilium also ensure that the official leaflet on Frank Duff prayer card and each of the Causes is available in their thousands of distributions to all parishioners and contacts everywhere. The Senatus Treasurer should seek quotations for 100,000 of Frank Duff leaflet and 50,000 of the other two causes, so that all the praesidia and councils can distribute freely to clients seeking the intercession of our individual saints-in-waiting for miracles.

Brother Perlas stressed the importance of attending the Acies, the great central annual function of the Legion on the part of every member.

Praesidium Reports:

64th Annual Report for Praesidium Queen Assumed into Heaven, St. Paul’s Parish, San Francisco (reported by President, Brother Gary Lanza)
With three current members, they visited 25 homes. A parishioner thanked them for doing home visits. Their praesidium coordinated 19 Book barrows at three different locations (30th and Mission, 24th and Noe and added one in front of St. Paul’s Church where they found that people seem more comfortable chatting in front of the church. They also coordinated the Apostolate to the Crowd at 24th and Mission and the Tenderloin District participated by legionaries in the Senatus. One of their members participated in the West Coast Walk for Life where he took pictures and posted them on the Senatus website. Their goal is to conduct a Columban Drive and fill the vacant positions and to increase Home Visitations.

Council Reports:

San Jose Comitium Quarterly Report (reported by Brother Mike Aubin, President)
The pastor of St. Joseph Church in Mt. View has agreed to start a new senior praesidium. A Columban Drive is scheduled on March11th. The pastor at Transfiguration Church would like to start a new praesidium to do door-to-door visitations and invite people to attend Mass and receive the Sacraments. Two praesidia that were combined together is going strong. The Comitium Spiritual Director would like to start a junior praesidia at the Catholic schools on Wednesdays when all Catholic schools have short days. They are currently working with the principal at St. John’s Church in Milpitas to start a junior praesidium on Mondays after school. A new Spiritual Director for the Comitium will be appointed while the current Spiritual Director will study in Rome for two years. Challenges: It is difficult to attend the SF Senatus meetings because of heavy rush hour traffic on Thursday nights. Spiritual Directors for many praesidium are open.
Oakland Comitium – no report received.
They are requesting approval from the Senatus to add a position of an Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Secretary positions in the board. Brother Perlas will find out the reasons and justification for this request.
Northern West Coast Korean Comitium Quarterly Report (reported by Sr. Carmen Perlas, Correspondent)
Two Active members were added and ten new Auxiliary Members. The council officers and council members’ attendance have increased in this quarter. Some Comitium Officers including the Spiritual Director will visit Anchorage Korean Curia on May 6th. The new praesidium in Oakland is composed of young members from 20-40 years old. Their first meeting was held in February and will know more about it at the next quarter. The last Columban drive brought in 11 new Active and 28 Auxiliary members. 399 members attended their Annual General Reunion in December.
San Mateo County Comitium Quarterly Report (reported by Sr. Marina Angeles, President)
The existing praesidium at All Souls Parish became inactive but the pastor has approved for a Columban Drive to establish both English and Spanish praesidium. The council attendance is 35%. The Comitium will plan for an Exploratio Dominicalis for the coming months. Conducted an Apostolate to the Crowd during the Martin Luther King’s Walk for Peace and Justice and during the West Coast Walk for Life by giving out Rosaries and Religious materials. In a parish, a praesidium promoted the Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary supported by the Comitium. An Auxiliary member got married as a result Marriage Validation evangelization.
SF Mission-Excelsior Curia Quarterly Report (reported by Sr. Tessie Velicaria, Correspondent)
The Council attendance this quarter is 88% for Curia Officers and 65% for Praesidia Officers. They continue to pursue their plan of meeting with the Pastors of St. James and St. John the Evangelist Church in the next quarter. During the Day of Evangelization held within Saint Kevin parish, they visited 217 homes where they met those who desire to enroll as Auxiliary members, some needed the Sacrament of Baptism and some would like to come back to the faith. Their next venue for Day of Evangelization in May is St. Elizabeth Parish. They continue to promote Catholic Radio and EWTN, Frank Duff Prayer group (composted of parents of Junior legionaries.) Through the help of some legionaries, one man started to the Pastor about Adult Faith Formation classes and his son enrolled in the CCD program. Their junior members are now learning to love Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament because they go with their parents or grandparents on First Fridays and on Thursday nights.

Father Goode gave us his Blessings before he left for the evening.

The Catena was recited at 9:00 p.m.

The Allocutio was given by Brother Perlas. The Acies is a very significant ceremony, a very important function of the legion that every member must understand because it is when we rekindle the love for our Blessed Mother. Everything we do is an act of humility dedication and commitment. Everything that we’ve got and everything that we can possibly do, a journey that we …..

Reports from Chairpersons:

LEGION EXTENSION AND COLUMBAN DRIVE / No report
Pro-life Work / No report
APOSTOLATE TO THE CROWD - (24TH AND MISSION) / Three Legionaries met 17 contacts. A man took a red Rosary. He is sending it in package as a Valentine Day gift to a friend.

Reports from Chairpersons (Cont)

APOSTOLATE TO THE CROWD - TENDERLOIN (EDDY AND JONES) / Nine Legionaries met 56 contacts on a windy cold winter night. They met a Youth with a Mission group of 12 young people handling out sausages. The legionaries shook their hands including a group of dozen Chinese tourists that passed by.
APOSTOLATE TO THE TOURISTS (held at the end of the Powell Cable Car Line) / Three legionaries gave out 20 Rosaries and Rosary Guides. They got more nays than yes. Spoke to a lady who works but no time to go to church claims she knows God. She also surfs the internet for spiritual support. Another tourist asked where the nearest Catholic Church is.
They will purchase a rolling and foldable book rack on the next apostolate.

Other Business and Announcements:

ACIES – March 18, 2018, Sunday – Saint Cecilia Church, 2:00 p.m. Registration; 2:30 Ceremonies

 Senatus Workshop – Confirmed: Apr 28, 2018, Sat. 9:00 a.m. at Saint Finn Barr 
Senatus Recollection – Confirmed: June 9, 2018, Sat. 9:00 a.m. at Saint Finn Barr  Update on Saint Raphael and on President’s Worksheet (Revised)

Next Senatus Meeting: Thursday, April 12, 2018, 7:00 p.m. -St. Finn Barr Parish Hall.

There being no further business, the meeting ended at 9:15 pm with the Concluding Prayers and the Prayer for the Beatification of the Servant of God, Frank Duff.

Respectfully submitted,

Sr. Carmen Perlas, Secretary Bro. Ando Perlas, Secretary
Prayer for the Beatification of the Servant of God Frank Duff

God our Father, You inspired your servant Frank Duff with a profound insight into the mystery of Your Church, the Body of Christ, and of the place of Mary the Mother of Jesus in this mystery. In his immense desire to share this insight with others and in filial dependence on Mary he formed her Legion to be a sign of her maternal love for the world and a means of enlisting all her children in the Church's evangelising work. We thank you Father for the graces conferred on him and for the benefits accruing to the Church from his courageous and shining faith. With confidence we beg You that through his intercession you grant the petition we lay before You...... We ask too that if it be in accordance with Your will, the holiness of his life may be acknowledged by the Church for the glory of your Name, through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

Prayer for the Help and Intercession of Venerable Edel Quinn

Eternal Father, I thank You for the grace you gave to your servant, Edel Quinn, of striving to live always in the joy of Your presence, for the radiant charity infused into her heart by Your Holy Spirit, and for the strength she drew from the Bread of Life to labor until death for the glory of Your Name, in loving dependence on Mary, Mother of the Church. Confident, O Merciful Father, that her life was pleasing to You, I beg You to grant me, through her intercession, the special favor I now implore …, and to make known by miracles the glory she enjoys in Heaven, so that she may be glorified also by Your Church on earth, through Christ Our Lord. Amen. We place our petitions in the hands of Mary to whom Edel turned in every need. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb. Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Prayer for the Beatification of Servant of God Alphonsus Lambe

God, who by your infinite mercy inflamed the heart of your servant, Alphonsus Lambe with an ardent love for you and for Mary, our Mother; a love which revealed itself in a life of intense labour, prayer and sacrifice for the salvation of souls, grant, if it be your will, that we may obtain, by his intercession, what we cannot obtain by our own merits. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

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